Duty in Preservation of Life, Cdn. Criminal Code #215
Duties Tending to Preservation of Life
Duty of persons to provide necessaries
215. (1) Every one is under a legal duty
(a) as a parent, foster parent, guardian or head of a family, to provide necessaries of life for
a child under the age of
sixteen years;
(b) to provide necessaries of life to their spouse or common-law partner; and
(c) to provide necessaries of life to a person under his charge if that person
(i) is unable, by reason of detention, age, illness, mental disorder or other cause, to withdraw
himself from that
charge, and
(ii) is unable to provide himself with necessaries of life.
Offence
(2) Every one commits an offence who, being under a legal duty within the meaning of subsection (1), fails without lawful excuse, the proof of which lies on him, to perform that duty, if
(a) with respect to a duty imposed by paragraph (1)(a) or (b),
(i) the person to whom the duty is owed is in destitute or necessitous circumstances, or
(ii) the failure to perform the duty endangers the life of the person to whom the duty is owed, or
causes or is likely to cause the
health of that person to be endangered permanently; or
(b) with respect to a duty imposed by paragraph (1)(c), the failure to perform the duty endangers
the life of the person to whom
the duty is owed or causes or is likely to cause the health of that person to be injured permanently.
Punishment
(3) Every one who commits an offence under subsection (2) is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Presumptions
(4) For the purpose of proceedings under this section,
(a) [Repealed, 2000, c. 12, s. 93]
(b) evidence that a person has in any way recognized a child as being his child is, in the absence of
any evidence to the contrary,
proof that the child is his child;
(c) evidence that a person has failed for a period of one month to make provision for the maintenance
of any child of theirs under
the age of sixteen years is, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, proof that the person has
failed without lawful excuse
to provide necessaries of life for the child; and
(d) the fact that a spouse or common-law partner or child is receiving or has received necessaries of
life from another person
who is not under a legal duty to provide them is not a defence.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 215; 1991, c. 43, s. 9; 2000, c. 12, ss. 93, 95.
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